The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1929, Page 1

BEN WELLS WILL ADDRESS WOMEN’S COMMUNIST ELECTION Ben Wells, who was nearly lynch- ed near Gastonia as a result of his activity among the cotton mill work- ers of the South will be one of the speakers at the women’s Communist rally to-be held tonight at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. the Women’s Department. of the Party gram of class struggle. | These speakers include Fanny Austin, can- didate for Alderman in the 21st dis- | trict, who will emphasize the issues fecing the Negro workers in par- ticular; Lena Chernanko, candidate in the 28rd Assembly district, Brooklyn; also a representative of the United Council of Workingclass ¢ ho recently received the of the Citizens’ Union, hose leading spirits are corpora- s and open-shop manu- South,” Wells said ye terday when he visited the Commu- nist election headquarters at 28 Union Square, “half the workers c Ile stretch-out system, the: wer met with the most vicious and cruel attacks, not only by the mill owners, but also their he uthern prisons. Despite the hypo- vitical cant about “Southern chiy-| alry” women workers are the vi chmen, the | tims of the same grinding exploita-| political agents of the mill barons, | tion as men.” by the state government. The women speakers tonight will | “One brave fighter, Ella May, 2 |point out that the capitalist parties, jleader of the textile workers, and |democratic, republican and socialist | mother of five young children, was |—are the rationalization . and| for RALLY AT IRVIN ly, are affected by the attacks of | vomen toiling in the factories in the bosses and the b vern- | New York, only a handful are or ment. ganized. Women workers in New Commenting on preparations for York City are paid one quarter and the meeting, Olga Gold, head of the| one half less wages than men for| Women’s Department of the New| the same work, slaving for the mis- erable sum of $10 to $14 weekly. Even the 48-hour state law for wo- especially are | men workers has been abolished and | York District of Party said: “Women the Communist workers PLAZA TONIGHT the meeting tonight, and : “In New York City Tammany Hall and e Republican e the open advocates of fascist terror against men and women workers who fight for better conditions. Their police have arrested thousands of cafeteria, needle and shoe strikers for the sole crime of picketing. The socialist Women. Wortis, one of the leaders of the At the same time the ieading wo-|Needie Trades Workers Industrial men candidates of the Party will| Union is running in the same dis- put forward the Communist pro- | trict as S. A. de Witt, the socialist announced last night. employed in the hell-holes that are| wantonly murder called mills are women and children. | mill bos emptied a revolver into Because these workers dared to re-|the mill worker’s heart. volt against the 60-70 hour weel other mill workers, charged with the $8-$10 weekly wage, the unen- der, face long prison terms in the | speed-up, program which go hand in| effected by the attacks of the bosses’ | government. | Now seven |new imperialist war, a war to de-|men eniployed in the United States,| Rebecca Grecht, hand with the preparations for | Ssroy the Soviet Unio: \show how women worker they will especial- | |the bosses can now demand the 5!| Pa only the third party of the | p shop.” An increasing number of Communist cam- x women are beginning to only two per cent are organized.| paign manag asserted that she| understand that only the Communist Of the hundreds of thousands of| anticipated a record attendance at|Party fights for their interests.” Of the 11 million wo- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION 1879. a Vol. VI., No. 191 Company. Ine.. 26-28 Published daily except Sundsy by The Comprodaily Publishing inion Square. YE a1 New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per yenr. ide New York, by m Price 3 Cents 1929 a JUDGE SEEKS CLASS VENGEANCE IN GASTONIA TRIAL Spread the Oil Truckmen’s. Strike! Communist Party Charges City Cov’t with Scabbing Urges Rank and File Strike Committees to Win Their Struggle Calls Upon Food Truckmen, Garagemen, Dock : Men to Join with Oil Men “Organize Under Lead of Trade Union Unity League,”.Communist Statement Urges “Spread the strike!” “One fight—one front!” “Form rank and file committees!” These are the outstanding slogans of a statement on the struggle of the 3,000 gasoline truck strikers issued by the Com- munist Party yesterday as the class-collaborationist “leaders” of the truckmen continued desperate attempts to squelch the insistent demands of more than 50,000 workers, including fill- jug station employes, garage workers and longshoremen, for a general sympathetic walk-out. Last night delegates from the 18 New York locals of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, -Stable- men and Helpers, representing.25,000 men, met at Astoria Hall in East 40th St..to again demand the general trucking strike which A. F. of L. officials succeeded in frustrating last Friday. Previous to the meeting, Mich-® = ael Cashal, vice president of H ARLEM BRONX the union, admitted that the. 5 delegates would have the au- thority to declare such a strike, ELECTION M F ET § but intimated that he and Li other labor fakers were pre-) «te prove TOMORROW NIEHT Gas, Garage Workers Join. . = est a Members of the Garage Workers’ —_—_— pared to spike the proposal* anJ Polishers Union have already | \A7ai Meccan thle ariuident Herman Co.| V" acta ees oe gin to Spea hen, to announce that if the strug- gle is not settled in favor of the oil ae truckmen by Saturday, the union’s William W. Weinstone, candidate for mayor on the Communist ticket membership of 15,000 will call a sympathetic walkout. in the municinal elections, will speak On Tuesday night, representatives at a Communist election rally in ef the 5,090 fillin workers |Negro Harlem tomorrow night at ret ii wo halls in Brooklyn and St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th to formulate demands | Stvet Others speakers will be Otto Hall. candidate for comptroller, Richard B. Moore, candidate for Congrgess in the 2ist distr and Fanny Aus- tin, candidate for alderman in the 21st district. ‘ The nomination of Hall roused the ire of the Gastonia Gazette, mouthpiece of the cotton mill manu- facturers of Gaston county which ic on joining the truckmen’ struggle, but the strike vote stalled off until Friday by the cor- rupt officials in charge. Even then, it was intimated, the meetings night be hogtied to voting on “whether to present the demands to the bosses.” At 2 o’clock today, the Transpor- tation Trades Council, which in- pre rae cludes eight branches of the Inte jlaunched a Vicious attack against national Longshoremen’s Union, will the Communist Party on that score. meet to instruct the 27,000 longs | A statement on the meeting issued shoremen, coopers, checkers and) (Continued on Page Two) other waterfront workers it repre- Reraaey tae a sents to cease handling goods we: Russell Knight Talks * Bosses’ Press \Stalin’s Nerve Collapse | ‘Fishwick Has Officers 2USt Dope for Workers of 9 Subdistricts; Re ' are invited to notice the two follow- ing news dispatches, both received ‘ service, the first one as follows: Miners Are For NMU sea Both Gangs of Fakers| contirmed reports received today | from Riga said today that Josef SPRINGFEED, Ill, Oct, 16--| Seriously ill as the result of a ner- While the National Miners Union| Yous breakdown. Stalin is now in |convention and the rank and file| of Gorki, 30 miles from Moscow, coal miners continue to join this | the reports said, and his physicians the Fiskwiek administration boasts | Months of complete rest. The un- that its henchmen in the offices‘of Confirmed advices reported that the union have voted approval of the | conditions were being circulated in | Moscow.” of the United Mine Workers of | . - 1 America and supported the tempor- talist papers which feverishy seize restraining the Lewis appointees |serve some purpose against the ‘now in Springfield from “being or Soviet Union, reades of the Daily edministration of the U. M. W. above dispatch with the following, in Minois.” which was received later: time admits that the officials of | Peoria sub-district. and Frankiin | ** “MOSCOW, Oct. Josef V, Stalin, Secretary General ‘ s OWN CONVENTION ihe | eee Readers of the Daily Worker Lewis Has Two = yesterday through the United Press “BERLIN, Oct. 16 (UP).—Un- Appear at Toronto V. Stalin, the Soviet dictator, is proceeds with its plans for 2 mass| 4 Private sanitarium at the town militant union in larger numbers, have ordered him to take two nine of the eleven sub-districts of Wild rumors concerning Stalin's split with the international office | f Just how little reliable are eapi- sry injunction obtained by Fishwick |on every rumor thought by them to pretending to be provisional district | Worker are asked to compare the The Fishwicl- clifue at the same | ‘county sub-district are with Lewis.| of the Communist Party, returned Officials Belong to Machine. | to his office today after a two None of these sub-district officials | months’ vacation at the Caucasion are elected by the miners. The| summer resort of Sochi.” miners are not in the U. M. W. A.,! Readers will note the subtile in- 16 (UP).— | (Continucd on Page Two) sertion in the first dispatch of anti- Soviet propaganda: the use of the term “Soviet dictator,” the IN CHICAGO IN DRIVE ON PARTY & | Court Says Communist | , Membership Enough | Grounds for Charge | Jail Hathaway and 27 the Party CHICAGO, Ml. Oct. 1 sicago | courts ar making a serious atempt | }to jail all leaders of the Communist | Party. Warrants charging sedition | have been issued against District | | Organizer Hathaway, Nels Kjar, | |Zinich, Herman, Murphy and 22 other leading Communists and mili- tant labor. organizers. The court has officially ruled that mere membership in the Communist Party is sufficient grounds for the | sedition indictment. Moye to Ilegalize Party. Hathaway, in a statement today, | | brands this attack as an attempt ee |drive the Communist Party out of Hlegal existence, and one in whch a | convietion in Chicago will be follow- | ed up by similar action in other | | parts of the country. | The four mentioned above were arrested at the Communist Party | | (Continued on Page Two) | THUG ATTACK ON | | Attempt to “apie — | ILLINOIS MINERS Read This!See SEDITION CHARGE FOUGHT FOR STRIKERS’ RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE: POLICE FIRED FIRST AFTER DELIBERATELY PLANNING A MASSACRE Labor Jury Statement Points Out Mill Owners’ Prosecution, Judge Combined to Prejudice Jury; Make Open Attack on Workers Proecution’s Argument Starts Today; Last Defense Witness Shows Pictures Proving Impossibility of Shots Being Fired from Hall BULLETIN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 16.—The state finished its rebuttal testimony today, putting on, as a last melodramatic trick to influence the jury the weeping daughter and widow of Aderholt. They testified that Aderholt’s last words were: “I can’t live; I don’t know why they shot me; I tried to keep the peace.” It is common knowledge in Gastonia that Aderholt’s real last words were: “Don’t prosecute anybody for this. I was where I had no business to be.” However, neither the doctor nor the preacher who heard this statement would testify to it for the defense. The judge ruled against the objection of the-defense that the closing arguments would be limited to six hours for each side, with four speakers for each. The defense motion for non-suit was overruled by Barnhill, and he stated the case would go to the jury Friday. * * * CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 16.—The defense has rested its case in the trial of seven Gas- | tonia strikers and organizers whom the mill owners and their state are trying to send to prison for 30-year sentences. Sufficient evidence has been given by defense witnesses to prove overwhelmingly that the members of the National Textile Workers Union who are on trial for “murder” were en- tirely justified in defending their lives and the lives of their wives and children and fellow |members of the union, as well as their headquarters arl homes from the murderous attacks of the police and mill thugs on June 7. It has been shown beyond a shadow of doubt that the police fired first, that the attack was deliberately planned by Gilbert, Roach and other policemen in conspiracy with th eLorev mill bosses’ “Committee of 100” who were determined to prevent the spreading of the strike at the Loray mill, determined to smash the union and get rid of its leaders. CLEANERS QUIT WINDOWS 100” nature of the whole dispatch origi- nating at Riga, the border center of the United States’ spy service for Washington's “intelligence” spies within the Soviet Utiion. Attention alled to this incident merely to illustrate tha tonly in the Commun- | Whalen Offers E OLIGO Tt aan cal aaskeoes tina Gs trath to Break Strike about the Soviet Union or any other | phase or factor of the class strug- “Never in the history of the union | gle. have we received such a unanimous response to the strike call,” Harry Rive Days for Worker Feinstein, secretary of the Window Fj % Held in Demonstration Cleaners’ Union, Local 8, said yes-| terday in commenting on the 100! 5 | per cent effective strike of the 2,000 i gainst MacDonald | window cleaners, j : fi .| Anti-vicilousness characterized the | g 3 § | faible y retro eek! |son Market Court in sentencing An-| hich required several stitches. |wage from $45 foots adequate com. [8 Pograbinsky, one of the workers!" Oyeaniring immediately in’ de- proper safety devices; adequate com- | arrested in the recent denionstratjon | ¢ Norte cain. | pensation insurance and equal divi- Rgaicubs wammay.) “Mucbonaldacet ense 0: inchefsky, his fellow | sion of work in slack periods. Thirty 1 “wild ! rumors,” and he 100 per cent lying | | To be Announced at Meet Tonight An attack by professional gorillas on a member of the Necdle Trades Workers Industrial Union in the fur market yesterday as turned into 2 | fh demonstration against the or- | ganized thuggery of the I. L. G. W. | U. by many of its victims. | Arising out of the fight, the only s made by Tammany police jwere of workers against whom the jthugs directed their kui The | | thugs slashed Morris Winchefsky at | me Defendants Lives Endangered. One after another of the defense witnesses have testified that the strikers were viciously attacked throughout the duratic on of the strike by police and th Jute Workers of Virginia | Must Have Daily Worker! Must Also Be Rushed to Harbor Workers of New Orleans | Virginia, one of the chief bases of American war-time industry, is | also one,of the important southern Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, This letter from a worker in Speaks for itself, in so far as sh workers of the South. “Norfolk is a textile center, havi factories. Negro workers are the and in many textile centers in Virginia are calling for th textile manufacturing centers. Mill workers in Virginia, too, as well as North and South Carolina, have heard of the Daily Worker, paper. the Atlantic Jute Mills, in Norfolk, owing the necessity of rushing the Daily Worker at once to the scores of thousands of unorganized mill ig especially the burlap and jute worst treated in the jute industry, fivered by scab drivers, or trans- ported with scab. gasoline. This will:mean a virtual tie-up on the at Youth ‘Gaston’ Meet Tasks of the youth in the south- independent companies have accept- ed these demands, Feinstein report: Other employers, organized in the waterfront. » ¢ ‘ern textile fields will be explained | Manhattan Window Cleaning Em- Grand Central Station, to five days | denouncing thém as cut-throat mprisonment, | agents of th® Schlesinger machine. The worker refuse to allow her-| ‘Their cries were swiftly taken up {self to b efinger-printed, despite the | hy the crowded market till some workers rushed after the gorillas, | and afe the greatest number. “Pay is fom 18 to 30 cents an hour, sometimes a little more. “We are working as long as 15 hours a day. | “Please print this in the Daily, and send me copies to pass along. ia in the e mercenaries of the Manville- Jenckes company. They have related how threats had been made contin- ually by Gilbert, Roach and others of the textile bosses’ gunmen in and out of uniform, to “come down some night and clean out your goddam Russian agitators.” These seven on trial and all other active union members had been threatened with death. They had been brutally beaten on picket lines. Their first headquar- ters had been destroyed by forces of “law and order,” co-operating with mill hireling: City, county, and state authorities had joined with the bosses, black hundreds and the strikers had learned that they jeould not epect protection from |them, and therefore were forced ot jorganize thei rown armed guards. | TMe defense has rested its case. If the judge nad jury were impar- _ “I saw other letters from workers in this part of Virgil | Daily Worker, and I thought the Daily Worker is the best way of let- (Continued’ on Page Three) | tial, there would be no_ possible doubt that the verdict would be “not guilty,” but with the aid of Judge ALL Officials. Hedge, by Russell Knight, one of the de-|ployers’ Protective Association, have | Udge’s threat to sentence her to six | 2,000 workers joined in the move- The iron-solidarity of all truck | ¢endants snatched fro mthe mill-| rejected them. jmonths. This further aroused Sil- | ment, drivers, and the manifest sympathy | owners’ electric chair through mass [Perman's victousness! The: Antena: (Caught at 27eh4St. “and Hight A : Whalen Provides Police Thugs. tional Labor Defense defended the | A Schiesi s bod | k of workers in other industries for f the workers, at the Man- i jaf Whalen dimmadiately (oon: | Ave., Schlesinger’s agents drew a Barnhill, the mill owners through the cause of the strikers, is at last Prtren | Geom, 66 E. Fourth St, ey aacdeithe cualnen eee | knives and started a ight. __ |Dental Workers Await Shoe Workers Resist their prosecution lawyers have been driving the misleaders of Gas and) 4+ g p. m, tomorrow. His speech|hy offering 100 police to “protect Several threatening shots were able to place before the jury of con- Fuel Drivers’ Local 653 to change report will be a feature of the youth front, at leas in words, the Trade | meeting called by the Youth Con- Union Unity League, 26 Union Sq. ference for Gastonia Defense and pointed out last night. | Relief. Heretofore Dawson and his hench-| Gil Green, District Organizer of men have been trying to stuff the the Young Communist League, will truckmen with fake optitmtism on report after Knight. the question of spreading the strike. | Dawson himself, boasting that thi lot . local could“dry-up the city” ‘without ‘Midnight Performance the aid of workers in the other, “ 39 branches of trucking, the et Of ‘Weavers Saturday front,/ garage, filling station and rail workers, called off the truck- men’s meeting scheduled for last vA benefit midnight performance of “The Weavers” will be given at the 55th St. Playhouse on Saturday i toyed Build Up the United Front of non-union window cleaners employed | the Working Class From the Bot- |to replace strikers.” | } the Ent ises! Move . uniformed) strikebreakare| <0" UP—st: the Enterprises i | would undoubtedly be added to that ’ jnumber if 1,500 of them were not | already helping to break the «1 5=Y ear Plan To Be Feature truckmen’s strike, i ; | The strike began yesterday morn- f 12th A P | ‘ing after the call had been unani- | Q ; hniversary rogram mously endorsed by vote at a mass 24 meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. More than 200 employers, union and scab shops are hit, Feinstein de- fired by police who charged into the | crowd to protect*the gorillas. They | (Continued on Page Two) | Will Celebrate Achievements of Revoluton, at Great Anniversary Gathering, Nov. 3. ‘Boss Reply to Demands As They Plan Strike tory workers will call a general strike will be largely determined by letters expected today from employ- ers organized in the Associated Dental Laboratories, Inc., in answer to the demands of the Dental Lab- oratory Workers’ Union, M. J. Shal- kan, union organizer, yesterday, announced Whethér New York dental labora- | Police Brutality on | Brooklyn Picket Line Police arrests against workers or- ganized in the Independent Shoe Workers Union, who are picketing three Brooklyn shops which violated the union’s agreement are still suc- cessfully resisted by the strikers. The shops involved are the Sep- turn, 33 Marey Ave.; the Ebee, 449 Troutman St., and the Resined, 330 Melrose St. servative fundamentalists farmers everything that will inflame their prejudices. If Fred Beal, Louis McLaughlin, William McGinnis, George Carter, \Joseph Harrison, K. Y. Hendricks, and Clarence Miller go to a living death i nthe penitentiary, it will be because they are militant leaders of the working class, holdign revo- lutionary opinions on political, relig- ious, economic and raction problems, startlingly new to this jury and op- posite to everything they have been clares.. Victories included in these | All had aced in accordance with |taught to believe by all the institu- Tuesday, when the general strike vote, blocked Friday, was to have been taken. Now the A. F. L. fakers are mouthing ‘general strike’ at 11:30 p. m. under the auspices of the N. Y. local of the WIR. Wm. Z. Foster, National Secretary of the T.U.U.L,, and Ben Wells, southern organizer, will speak. Proceeds will go to the Gastonia strikers’ defense. in order the placate the strikers, but at the same time stamping out united front sentiment wherever en- | countered. DISTRICT AGITPROP TONIGHT. The solidarity of the truckers is| A meeting of the District Agit- well illustrated at the Pratt Plant of prop Committee will take place to- the Standard Oil Co., where strikers night at 8 p. m. at the Workers Cen- of the Royal Glass Co. and the Aus- ier, Very important matters will be is the R. H. Macy and Company— notorious for its thousands of under- paid workers. Victories for militant union or- The Five-Year Plan, opening up!ed by District 2, Communist Party, ne wvisas of intensive industrializa- | will be held Sunday, Nov. 3, in Madi- tion throughout the Soviet Union,|son Square G rden, Unless the union’s demands for the State Department of Labor's the eight-hour day, 44-hour week, cireular letter instructing shoe firms minimum wagesseale and tecognis to break relations with the Inde- tsrengthening the defense of the This unusual program will be a | ganization are registered by the| only Workers’ and Peasants’ Re-| record of the glowing achievements | large number of former open shop | public and tremendously improving | of the Soviet Union in the build- | | workers enrolling with the union. the living conditions of the Russian ing up of Socialism in a territory | “If the bosses hope to meet their | masses will live in work and picture | covering one-sixth of the earth’s ‘contracts with the aid of scabs,”|jin the pages of the souvenir pro- | surface. The program will also con- | | Feinstein said yesterday, “they'll be gram that is now being prepared for | tain artices by leaders of he Com- | | disappointed.” tion are met by Tuesday, Oct. 22, the threatened general strike will take effect from that date. Progress in the work yf complet ing organizational plans for the ex: pected stoppage was reported at the pendent Union because, the Depar- ment tried to show, it was a “Com- munist organization.” | Two strikers were arrested and dragged off the picket line after be- ing beaten up by thugs outside the Septurn shop, given a suspended sen- (Continued on Page Two) | considered. Last minute refusal of the police (Contingied on Page Two) |the celebration of the 12th anniver- | munist Party i nthe New York Dis- | union membership meeting at Irv-| tence whe ntried on charges of “dis- sary of the Russian Revolution, The | trict on the struggles of the workers celebration, which has been arrang- | (Continued on Page Two) ing Plaza Hall, 16th St. and Irving orderly conduct” at the Bridge Plaza Place Tuesday night. \Magistrate’s Court, Brooklyn. 4 tions of capitalist society. The schools, churches, newspapers |and government have held up the defendants as enemies of society, and the prosecution has inflamed their prejudices with the’ consent of the judge. The only hope is that there may be among the jurors some few poor farmers who have suffered from the same capitalist exploitation as the defendants, and who are in- telligent enough to recognize the (Continued on Page Three)